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0. POULAIN. COLLAR SUPPORTER. APPLICATION FILED JUL-Y9, 1913.

1,080,526; Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

' CHARLES :POUIIAIN, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

COLLAB-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2, 19113.

Application filed July 9, 1913. Serial No. 777,992.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES POULAIN, a citizen of the Republic ofFrance, residing at Paris, France, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Collar-Supporters, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.-

This invention relates to collar supporters and is designed moreparticularly to be used in connection with the open style of collars,which curve or flare outward from the neck, in contradistinction tothose collars which are substantially straight up and down and hug theneck. The ordinary form of a collar supporteris an elastic strip of somecharacter which tends to hold the collar flat against the neck, butthere are various styles of collars, known for instance, as the Robespierre or fMedici' which are of varying height and which curve outward"from the neck and in which an elastic supporter is impracticable.Therefore, the supporter which I have designed is of pliable or flexiblenature as distinguished from the elastic supporter and the inventionalso includes a particular form of supporter made of such pliablematerial.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of an indeterminatelength of one form of collar supporter within my invention; Fig. 2 showsanother form of the supporter of a length suitable for a single collar;and Figs. 3 and 4 show two different forms of collars as examples ofthose with which my invention is adapted to be used.

The supporter is made preferably of round wire, but may be made of wireor strips of other cross section. It isfurthermore made throughout ofone continuous piece of wire and comprises essentially a base length awhich is at intervals provided with fingers 6. These fingers may be allof the same length as seen in Fig. 1, or they may be of graduatedlengths as shown in Fig. 2, the longest finger being at the middle. andthe shortest at the two extremities, or vice-versa as may bedesired tocorrespond to the style of collar upon which the supporter is to beused; in fact the length of these fingers may vary in any regular orirregular way. The

sides of the loop from separating, thus making it convenient toconstruct the supporter as a whole out of a single piece of wire. Thewire of which the supporter is made is preferably of a soft, pliablenature so that the fingers can be bent to any curvature or angle toconform to the shape of the collar without returning to their originalstraight shape. Such a supporter is applied to the collar-by securingthe base length a at or near the neck band of the collar and thenbending the individual fingers b, sothat they Will rest against the faceof the collar, either inside or outside thereof, and will conform to theshape of the collar at the locations where the'respective fingers occur.This is shown clearly in Figs. 3 and 4. The fingers being all connectedtogether by the base length a and being of pliable material willpreserve the shape of the collar under all ordinary conditions of use.

Since the, supporter herein described is made up of a single icce ofwire, it is'ob vious that indeterminate lengths maybe made up andcontaining a number of complete collar supporters which may be separatedby simply cutting the base wire a tlge proper points to obtainthe-length desirec.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. A collar supporter comprisinga single strip of wire-like material comprising a base length and aseries of spaced fingers extending therefrom, each finger comprising twoparallel lengths of wire twisted together.

2. A collar supporter comprising a base length having a series ofintegral fingers:

projecting at intervals therefrom, said fingers being of pliable, butinelastic material.

of integral fingers projecting therefroma t In Witness whereof; Isubscribe my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES POULAIN. Wifinesses:

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